Hymns suggestions for Sunday 29 June 2025
- General:
- Lectionary
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today is also Conference Sunday. The 2025 British Methodist Conference is taking place at the Telford International Centre (26 June - 2 July). You can follow business and find out further information on the Conference website pages.
Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading.
General
*Will you come and follow me? (StF 673)
*Would I have answered when you called (StF 674)
2 Kings 2: 1-2, 6-14
Deep in the shadows of the past (StF 463)
Have you heard God’s voice, has your heart been stirred? (StF 662)
The prophets' voice comes down the years (StF 162)
Psalm 77: 1-2, 11-20
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
God with us: Creator, Father (StF 8)
How shall I sing that majesty? (StF 53)
Our God is a great big God (StF 61)
Our God is an awesome God (StF 62)
Your hand, O God, has guided (StF 692)
Galatians 5: 1, 13-25
For the fruits of all creation (StF 124)
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (StF 379)
Of all the Spirit’s gifts to me (StF 709)
Put peace into each other’s hands (StF 712)
Spirit who broods, Spirit who sings (StF 396)
Luke 9: 51-62
God, who sets us on a journey (website only)
'I have a dream', a man once said (website only)
‘Moses, I know you’re the man,’ the Lord said (StF 473) suggested vv. 3-5
*Will you come and follow me? (StF 673)
*Would I have answered when you called (StF 674)
Alternative related readings
1 Kings 19: 15-16, 19-21
A charge to keep I have (StF 658)
Called by Christ to be disciples (StF 660)
I, the Lord of sea and sky (StF 663)
Lord, you call us to your service (StF 664)
Psalm 16
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (StF 545)
He’s got the whole world (StF 536)
I heard the voice of Jesus say (StF 248)
A prayer that we see the world through God's eyes
If we see the world through your eyes, Lord,
then we see a vision of our world as your love would have it:
a world where all who are weak are protected and none go hungry;
a world where your riches of creation are shared for everyone to enjoy them;
a world where mutual respect is expressed between different races and cultures and harmony descends;
a world where peace is built with justice, and justice is guided by love.
Give us the inspiration and courage to build it how you see it Lord!
That all may praise together and the only power exerted is the power of your love. Amen.
Gwynn Bamford, supernumerary deacon, Bromsgrove and Redditch Circuit
A prayer for unity - Alternative Prayer
Let us be one, O Lord, in our praise of you, one in our prayers to you, one in our love for you and one through Christ, in our coming to you.
Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35-c. 107)